San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-01-18


The inaugural Is in progress, with q
grand mill tary display. The companies
from Burnett and Fort Worth, are pres.
ent. Congress avenue is crowded with
thousands of people and vehicles. B.
Fire at New Minister, B. c., cremates
three.
Indiana. democrats unseat Senator Nc
Donald.
McQuade, the boodler, has gone to
Sing Sing.
Surveyor General Dawson, OF Colo
RADIO, is dead.
FL Paso has new bank. Cash cap
ital $3.50 600.
South France very generally shaken
by earthquake.
Heavy snow storms prevent outdoor
labor In Scotland.
Pension bill disbursiDg $4,000, 900
passes the senate.
Hog cholera prevalent in sections OF
Illinois and Iowa.
The New Jersey coal handlers strike
remains unchanged.
New Jersey senate postpones orgaDi-
cation until Thursday.
Father McGlynn's congregation pro-
test against his removal.
The late elections In Greece were very
favorable to the ministry.
Dominion parliament dissolved. New
election ordered February %.
Emperor William takes the defeat of
his army bill very much to heart.
The Austrian Reichcrath has been
summoned to meet on the 18th inst.
Senate kills proposition to have steno-
graphic reports of Texas legislature.
Heavy snow storms in Minnesota and
Dakota cause trains to be abandoned.
Governor confirms Rose and Bracken-
ridge as regents Of the State university.
Germans in England. notified to be
ready to return for military duty in "a
hours.
Patti has not cancelled her Los Angeles
engagement, but holds the boards there
tonight.
The entire anthracite coal miners Of
America form union for profit and pro-
lection.
w. B. Eick, merchant OF Richmond,
Texas, goes insane at Capitol house I,
Houston.
Henning, held for murder in connec-
ton with the Fort Worth riots, Is re-
fused bail.
Secretary of the treasury presents es-
Inmates OF deficiencies for 1887 to amount
S2,279, 1896.
Galveston and other Texas cities emp
ty their politicians and fashionables in
to Austin today.
A bill is before the Austin house to
punish blacklisting with a fine of from
$1,000 to $4,000
Vera Cruz, Mexico, stops all public
gambling. Cover 1t up and 60 1t in Sc
cret is the order.
The Russian ports in the north Paci-
fic. 1t is reported, will be closed against
foreign vessels.
Four tramps burned cotton car
which took fire as the train was pulling
into Paducah, KY.
The invalid pensions bill passes the
house; also the senate amendment on
Mexican pensions.
Minister McLane complimented Bou-
LANCER and the French army at the re-
cent Yorktown anniversary.
Buckskin Joe is looking up Texas
lands for his 300 families. He will pro-
badly settle in Martin county.
Miss Van Zandt's aunt from whom she
will inherit her fortune, fiat all, is
heartbroken over her nIece's folly.
Cholera Is reported epidemic all
through the upper Platte country above
MontivedO, and hundreds dying daily.
Three persons were smOthered to
haafh af 1frOu w ndnrlaaa o,oo Fropo loa
ing mains, and twenty others supplied.
Cleveland approves the amendment
to the civil service rules appointing ad-
ditional boards Of civil service examin-
ers.
Sunset Cox is seriously sick. His ply
sicians will not admit that his present
condition Is alarming, but say 1t may be-
come SO any moment.
Kaufman, commission man OF st.
Louis, sues the Spanish government for
$4,000 damages for false imprisonment
and abuse In captivity.
Miss Clara Barton, presid ent OF the
National Red Cross association, is COM
ing to Texas to investigate the condi-
ton Of drowth sufferers.
The senate favor home rule IN the
matter Of Territorial appointment and
will not confirm persons appointed from
other states or territories.
Two British India officers have been
arrested at Moscow, as spies. They had
military sketches and claimed they had
come TO learn the Russian language.
The Pittsburg end of the Van Zandt
family disown and disinherIt the Chi
cago branch for permitting Nina to en-
ter into marriage engagements with
Spies
Ross arrived at Austin at Has last
night, accompanied by military, music,
100 hundred ladies and hundreds Of gen.
tlemen. Moore, Of Eastland, is secre-
tary Of state.
Armour has tackled the eight hour
system in the interest of the Chicago
contractors, and throws the weight OF
his money and influence In favor Of ten
holrs a day.
The supreme court OF the United
States affirms the decision Of the st.
Louis criminal court sentencing John
Hays to death for the murder OF one
Mueller in 1881.
Gen. HaZen died Sunday night and
will be buried tomorrow. The body will
rest temporarily in enc Of the Washing.
ton city cemeteries until Mrs. Hazen's re.
turn from abroad.
The International Brick Layers union
| denounce all affiliAtiOn with socialists
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